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Eliza Dushku
American
Actress
About the author
When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#People
#Age
When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Focus
#Lies
#Months
We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Talk
#Thought
#Friends
#Living
#Events
#Mom
TV can be a long commitment.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Commitment
There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Attitude
The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Letters
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Science
#Mother
#Parents
#Mormon
It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Play
#Consequences
My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Love
#Death
#Mom
#Liberal
#Mormon
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Home
In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#First
#Night
#Girls
My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Time
#Mother
#Students
#Russia
#Countries
For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Time
#Thought
#Boys
#Clothes
#Football
I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Feeling
#Care
I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Right
#First
#Job
#Actors
I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Boston
#Brothers
#Mom
I'm a more mature actress now.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Now
I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Self
#Mind
If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#Love
#Science
#Society
#School
Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
Eliza Dushku,
American
Actress
#End
#Education
#School